Best-selling instructor of intermediate courses on machine learning, covering topics like how to improve machine learning pipelines, better engineer and select features, optimize models, and deal with imbalanced datasets.Author of Packt's "Python Feature Engineering Cookbook" and the book "Feature Selection in Machine Learning with Python" available on Leanpub.Developer and maintainer of Feature-engine, an open-source Python library for feature engineering and selection, featuring 150k+ monthly downloads, 1.3k stars on Github, and a 40+ contributor community.Worked as a data scientist in finance and insurance companies, developing and putting into production machine learning models to process insurance claims, assess credit risk, and prevent fraud. Lead the implementation of machine learning across the business. Mentored data scientists and recruited members for the data science team. Passionate about supporting others in learning more about data science, machine learning, and programming in general, and using technology and technical tools and skills to support organizations working on social problems.
Listed skills include Data Analysis, Machine Learning, R, Matlab, and 20 others.